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Both Michael Eberle-Sinatra's Leigh Hunt and the London Literary Scene: Reception History of His Major Works, 1805-1828 and David Higgins's Romantic Genius and the Literary Magazine: Biography, Celebrity, Politics convey forcefully that Romantic writers ignored the periodical press at their own risk. As contemporary scholars have come to see, the periodical press could make or break an author's reputation. Although significantly different in subject and scope, both Eberle-Sinatra's book and Higgins's, both part of Routledge's "Studies in Romanticism" series, acknowledge the far-reaching power of the Romantic periodical.

Eberle-Sinatra's Leigh Hunt and the London Literary Scene focuses exclusively on the works of Leigh Hunt. As recently as ten years ago, Hunt seemed destined to go down as Romanticism's also-ran and literary history's most famous mooch. A man who so frustrated Byron that that poet described his attempts to assist Hunt financially as "like pulling a man out of a river who directly throws himself in again," Hunt was famously immortalized in Bleak House as the condescending fiscal incompetent Harold Skimpole. Recently, however, his reputation have taken a turn...

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